Astrophotography is a growing hobby amongst Stargazers. This is something that I have spent a lot of time looking into, so I thought I would share the knowledge and information I gathered here. Hopefully this will save you time in your own search 🙂 Now, the first think to understand is that if you plan on taking high…

Several people asked me to post a simple tutorial on how I took some night sky pictures. I am not an astrophotographer in any way, shape or form, nor do I have any expensive equipment. I simply read several tutorials, picked a dark spot on the beach and tried to do my best. Anyway,…

SOAR Telescope Time Exposure Image [Pin It] A time exposure view of the SOAR telescope observing at Cerro Pachon in Chile. CREDIT: Daniel Maturana/NOAO/AURA/NSF View full size image A powerful new ultraviolet laser that fires into the night sky is helping scientists take their most detailed look yet at a distant star cluster. A team…

The signals, which came from a galaxy 3.9 billion light years away, were x-rays generated by matter heated to millions of degrees and torn apart as material from the star crosses the black hole’s event horizon. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-03/cries-of-a-dying-star/4175688?section=nsw

First solar sytem where planets ‘line up’ like planets of solar system Most other planets found so far are ‘hot Jupiters’ – uninhabitable worlds that orbit too close to parent star Three planets orbit with planes aligned with equator of their sun Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2179132/A-second-Earth-Telescope-finds-solar-mirrors–offers-hope-life-thrive-worlds.html#ixzz21iSrPknl

Two teams of physicists at the Cern laboratory near Geneva are preparing today to announce their latest efforts to discover the Higgs boson. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/jul/04/higgs-boson-discovered-live-coverage-cern